A senior Labour figure defended Keir Starmer's comments that he didn't care if he sounded conservative
Starmer came in for criticism for his recent comments
“He was pointing out that to meet the things, to celebrate the things, to defend the things that make this country great, it’s the Labour agenda that will do that. “On Keir personally, I voted for Keir Starmer, I wanted someone who could be the prime minster and do it for the right reasons. Be in public service for the right reasons and he embodies that and that hasn’t changed and I think simply taking the statement and values he had in that leadership contest but recognising we’ve had things like the pandemic and that’s hit how much money there is to spend on public services.
“And I want people who voted Conservative last time to look again at the Labour Party, look at their own priorities and say yes it is Labour who better represent that."We need to look long and hard at the state of the UK's democracy. That doesn’t mean we’re not embodying what is a classic Labour offer, I think that is fundamentally what Keir Starmer is about – a stronger set of employment rights, a better industrial policy, rebuilding the NHS, opportunity for all.
“He’s been clear on his ambitions but of course we’ll want to attract as wide a coalition of support for that as possible.”
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